portmaster with no run arguments.

jhell jhell at DataIX.net
Fri Sep 10 21:37:36 UTC 2010


On 09/10/2010 17:35, jhell wrote:
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> 	Just thought I would write you about an unexpected output from
> portmaster to get your opinion. I just ran 'portmaster' alone without
> any arguments to get the list of "--help". Surprising enough to me it
> searched for a null port and output the following.
> 
> ===>>> No valid installed port, or port directory given
> ===>>> Try portmaster --help
> 
> Would it be wise if portmaster was run with no arguments that it just
> output the '--help' by default ?.
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 

Or better yet. That list seems pretty verbose just for running
portmaster with no arguments, what about just printing the "Usage"
information instead, along with the --help as a usage.


Regards again,

-- 

 jhell,v


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